Meetings

Year 1998

Month
Topic
December No meeting
November Toby Lehman of IBM's alphaWorks research division presented TSpaces, their Java technology for connecting mobile computers to network services
October Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Rational Rose

Sean Kae, a technical lead for Rational Software, told us about UML and gave a demonstration of how their modeling software, Rose, can be used to create Java software from :

  • Use Case modeling
  • Dynamic view of the system
  • Static view of the system
  • Physical view of the system
  • Deployment view of the system
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    September JDX Demo and Java Embedded Server Presentation

    Damodar Das Periwal, the founder of Software Tree, demonstrated JDX, an object-relational mapping tool to facilitate development of sophisticated distributed applications in Java. JDX bridges the gap between the Java object model and the SQL relational model.

    Anselm Baird-Smith, Ph. D, Lead Architect of Sun's Java Embedded Server (Project NanoServer), explained ths server's framework, features, and APIs, including:

    • The "ServiceSpace" framework, which manages software component life-cycle and dependencies
    • The set of components that together consitute the Java Embedded Server
    • Remote access and configuration
    • Demo of the embedded server
    August JavaOS

    Sheila A. Harnett, Ph.D., the Technical Lead of IBM's JavaOS development, told us all about the JavaOS for Busines project, how they are jointly developing the reference implementation with Sun, how the OEMs, ISV's and IHV will play a part in fostering the development of JavaOS, explained the architecture of the reference platform and servers, and  gave us a demo of a Java OS client with an NT server and Citrix thin-client Windows application server. 

    Links from her presentation:

    July Java Packaging and Installation

    Zero G Software  discussed their solution to Java Packaging and Installation with their product, InstallAnywhere 2 Express.
    June JavaBeans within Visual Cafe

    There was a huge mixup over the meeting place since IBM moved from their Mountain View location to a new  location in Cupertino and we no longer had access to the meeting room. Symantec was able to find an open conference room so we moved the meeting to Symantec's headquarters in Cupertino. Once there, Steve Norton and Ian McFarland explained : 

    They also gave away TWO copies of Visual Cafe 2.5  Professional Database Edition!!
    May Modeling Complex Data in a Relational Database 

    Nat Wyatt, CTO of Cloudscape, Inc.,  talked about Modeling Complex Data in a Relational Database as well as JBMS, their small and sophisticated, 100% Pure Java database. JBMS can easily be downloaded with an applet over the web or integrated into a personal productivity assistant like a Windows CE device or a palm pilot. 
    April Java Certification

    Andrew Krumel of K&A Software, a Java Training and Consulting company, spoke about the Sun Certified Java Developer Program and told us some of the most common mistakes made by developers on the exam. 
    March Digital Signatures adn Signed Applets

    Gary Howard told us about digital certificates, digital signatures, signing applets, and Netscape's SmartUpdate feature. Check out the slides of the presentation and the demo applet. 
    Michael Smith of Weblogic discussed their Enterprise Java APIs and Tengah - The Java Applications Server
    February Squish Internet Service presented their services. 
    HomeStead

    Homestead is the first easy-to-use, online web page design technology that allows individuals or groups to collaboratively create and publish advanced web sites ('Homesteads') without installing software or computer programming. It's collaborative in that users 'found' Homesteads, and then invite others to contribute to them. Because the tool is a java program stored on our server, there is no software to install, users always access the latest version, and the software works on any browser or platform. Pages are automatically stored in the user's account, so publishing is painless. Users quickly and easily build web sites by dragging and dropping 'elements' onto pages. These elements range from text and shapes to clipart, graphics files, and interactive applets like chat rooms, that can be positioned, resized, recolored, and layered quickly and easily, resulting in a powerful and completely WYSIWYG web site. 

    Look for Homestead at Internet Showcase '98. 
    Public Beta Release: January 27,1998 
    Visit Homestead.com for more information!
    January  Sanjiv Bhalodia's JDBC presentation: 
    • Showed a basic session of JDBC with sbJDBC driver for Visual Foxpro 
    • Detail of how DriverManager loads the JDBC driver 
    • Step by step explanation of how a class gets the 

      • ResultSet after a SQL Query is executed. 
    • Briefly explained what is involved in writing your 

      • own JDBC Driver.
    Holiday "Eye Candy" Applet Contest 
    Everyone has browsed web pages with simple Java applets that catch your eyes' attention and liven up an otherwise static web page - that's eye candy! To help get everyone in the spirit of the season, we are challenging everyone to create an "Eye Candy" Applet for the upcoming holidays. 

    The contest rules are: 

    • Create a Java applet that is appealing to the eye 
    • The theme of the applet should revolve around the upcoming 
    • winter holidays, including but not limited to: 
    • Any cultural or religious symbols/significance 
    • Winter weather or activities 
    • Publish the applet on the Internet by one week before the 
    • January meeting and notify 
    • rickloek@squish.com of the URL 
    • Come to the January SVJUG meeting for show and tell of your applet 

      • Meeting attendees will decide 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners